BRATISLAVA — Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright once described Slovakia as the “black hole of Europe.” It was 1997: The son of then president Michal Kováč had been abducted and a key ...

A return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is unrealistic. NATO membership for Ukraine is also off the table. Any future security guarantees must involve both European and non-European forces, but they ...

The detected species of the Black Widow has not yet been domesticated in Europe, except in Cyprus, but other subspecies of these spiders live in Spain and also in the Mediterranean area. The ...

In the 1990s Slovakia had central Europe's worst-performing economy and least democratic government. Madeleine Albright, then the U.S. secretary of state, referred to it as "a black hole in the ...

More than a quarter century has passed since the United States called Slovakia a “black hole in the center of Europe” — an island of autocratic malaise surrounded by spry new democracies.

Two Black Hawk helicopters take off during a demonstration of the U.S. Army 101 Airborne division at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base near Constanta, Romania, on March 31, 2023. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP ...

Slovakia on Wednesday approved a plan to cull 350 bears following the latest deadly attack on a human. A 59-year-old man whose body was found in central Slovakia on Sunday appeared to have been ...

BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot multiple times and gravely wounded Wednesday, but his deputy prime minister said he believed Fico would ...

Europe. US offers Viper ... allowing the nation to choose between 12 AH-1Z Viper helos and 12 upgraded UH-60 Black Hawk copters. ... manufactured by Bell, to Slovakia for an estimated $600 million.

Slovakia, Europe’s next troublemaker? Having more than half of citizens reportedly rooting for Russia in Slovakia is scary, but what lies ahead for Slovakia may be even scarier.

In Slovakia, as in most European countries, EU elections draw significantly fewer people to the polls than national elections. But it’s particularly bad in Slovakia, which has consistently been ...